History Characters / Lincoln

* TheFashionista: Who else is responsible for Mary's PimpedOutDress ensembles?

& AgeLift: During the time period in which the film is set, Pendleton was only 39 years old. In the film, he is portrayed by Peter McRobbie, who was 69 years old at the time of the film's release.

%%* BaldOfEvil

%%* EvilOldFolks

* BaldOfAwesome: Though only we only see it once at the end. Usually he wears a wig.

->'''Played By''': Creator/GulliverMcGrath

->'''Played By''': Grainger Hines

->'''Played By''': Creator/PeterMcRobbie

->'''Played By''': Creator/BorisMcGiver

* {{Jerkass}}/TokenEvilTeammate: Basically his role amounts to bickering with other cabinet members and complain about Lincoln's plans to abolish slavery.

* TheBabyTrap: She implies in a heated argument that Lincoln always perceived that she [[ShotgunWedding forced him into a marriage]] by becoming pregnant and that she resents her oldest son as embodying his frustration. Lincoln insists that that's not true.

* TryingNotToCry: Her eyes glaze as she listens to Congressmen ridicule the notion of ending slavery and espouse utter hatred of Black people. She has to leave when [[spoiler: her lover]] Thaddeus Stevens states that he only believes in equality under the law and not racial equality.

* BadassBeard: Once fought in the Black Hawk War and is fighting a war currently with the South along with being TheDeterminator, he's also very bearded.

%%* BadassBeard

%%* BadassBeard

* AwLookTheyReallyLoveEachOther: Mary Todd and Lincoln bitterly argue at points. [[CallForward He also threatens to put her into the madhouse]]. But on their final coach ride they are loving and joyful with Lincoln scoffing at ignorant historians declaring she made him miserable.

* GrewASpine: He rather meekly states "my vote ties us" so softly that the clerk has to ask him to speak up. Suddenly, vertebrae align and he exclaims "I said Aye, Mr. [=MacPherson=], AAAAAAYE!" to the jubilation of the proponents and calls of "Traitor" from the opponents.

!!Thaddeus Stevens

* BiggerBad: He is this by extension to Pendleton and the anti-Amendment opposition as one of the major leaders of and representative for the Confederate government waging the Civil War primarily to preserve slavery.

->'''Played By''': Gulliver [=McGrath=]

->'''Played By''': Gloria Reuben

->'''Played By''': Stephen Henderson

->'''Played By''': Bruce [=McGill=]

->'''Played By''': Dakin Matthews

->'''Played By''': Lee Pace

->'''Played By''': Peter [=McRobbie=]

->'''Played By''': Bill Raymond

->'''Played By''': Stephen Spinella

->'''Played By''': David Warshofsky

->'''Played By''': Boris [=McGiver=]

->'''Played By''': Hal Holbrook

->'''Played By''': Jared Harris

* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Inverted. It's a lot harder to enlist in the army when your father who forbids it is Commander in Chief.

Leader of the Radical Republicans and a Representative from Pennsylv

* NiceGuy: Very polite in general, especially in comparison to all the other democrats who staunchly oppose the amendment.

* HeelFaceTurn: Stevens persuades him to vote for the Thirteenth Amendment and to switch parties from Democrat to Republican.

->'''Played By''': Michael Stuhlbarg

* TheUnfettered: Lincoln is ''absolutely'' determined to pass the amendament, and doesn't hesitate to: use bribery to convert representatives to his side, exploit the emergency powers that the Constitution has given him, and even [[spoiler: lie to congress about being in peace talks with the Confederacy]].

Leader of the Radical Republicans.

!!Francis Preston Blair
->'''Played By''': Hal Holbrook

%%* CoolOldGuy
%%* DeadpanSnarker

* [[spoiler:BigYES Or rather, big '''AYE!''']]

!!UsefulNotes/UlyssesSGrant

* FirstNameBasis: With Lincoln.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Despite being a white supremacist who once declared that "Our new government is founded upon [...] the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man", Stephens is respectful to the black Union soldiers he meets even as they're greeting him with {{Death Glare}}s. The real Alexander Stephens saw the black man as inferior to the white, but did not see that as a reason to denigrate or mistreat black people. Lincoln also addresses him as "Alex", hinting to the fact that they were friends before the war.

* {{Determinator}}: He knows the odds of passing the 13th Amendment are stacked against him. Doesn't phase him one bit.

* SpoiledSweet: Son of the President, plays with official maps, rides a goat pulled carriage through the White House, yet is a goodhearted and playful boy.